I hope I'm not breaking any rules as I also posted in the Photoshop forum? Anyways, My scene proved toooo much for my little puter to render and it choked! So, I broke it down into three diffent renders; Background, ground and scenery, and horse & sleigh. Now I need to put the layers back together in Photoshop and need to learn a new trick or two to put the horse and sliegh back onto the snow, maybe even 'kick up' some snow. I, once upon a time, had a good tutorial for making footprints but seem to have lost it and can't find anything in the Tutorials section, any one know of any good techniques you might share? Or a link to a good Tutorial??

Well, I've never done exactly this, but it occurs to me that you could use the Inner Shadow tool to make a simple drawn outline of a print look like an indentation. You can use the Skew tool to fit a print to different terrainns. Just an idea.

If you feel up to rendering the ground again, you could add footprints to the bump map. However you go about it, don't forget to add rail tracks left behind by the sleigh.

Thanks Strangechilde and Little Dragon, I have re-rendered the ground a couple more times (yup, remembering the sleigh rails) but the angle and alignment and the fact that I still have to 'bury' (ya, I can't spell;-) the hooves and rails just isn't working for me. Looks like the 'inner shadow and a couple other filters are going to have to do it....spent all afternoon looking for the old tutorial that I just can't remember (had to do with making footprints in the sand on a beach) and came up empty and blank....well, time to improvise! Thanks for the ideas!

If you search the Vue forum for 'footprints' you might find the tutorials you were thinking about. You'll find a bunch of threads on the subject--not really tuts, but a couple walk-thrus, I think. Even if those aren't what you're thinking of, you'll find several good tips and examples on making footprints.

Attached Link: http://www.photoshoppluggedin.com/html/tutorials.html

A Photoshop tutorial for "footprints in the sand" can be found at the link above.

Hi igohigh; Yes, can be done in photoshop, and I am obviously a little late here as the tutorial above will most likely suffice quite nicely, however, just as a hint; you could use the lasso tool, layering and beveling to get all those things your looking for. It's time staking, but what isn't...;-) Cheers.

Thanks everyone! I was fiddling with bevels and such last night and said to myself "this just isn't 'Carving' deep enough" when suddenly I remembered the "Carve" filter in Eye-Candy. I don't have the newest version but it seems to be doing OK? Now trying to make snow 'kick up' from the hooves the way I had it in Poser before I had to start 'slimming' things down to get it to render is another story....my 2D skills are really poor...oh well, if Lord Of The Rings don't run too late tonight I might have it ready to post later this evening. Thanks for all the help! Happy Holidays to you All ;-D (strange, I got No responses from the Adobe forum...?)